Fruit-juice extractor



Nov. 15, 1927.

WITNESSES FRUIT JUICE EXTRACTOR Filed May 13, 1925 IN VENTOR .12 lbw "iii? 272011 050,

Patented Nov. 15, 1927. v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

ALBERT W. THOMPSON, OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

My invention is an improved extractor A combined stop and sealing annular for use in removing the juice of a citrus or flange or shoulder 4 fits on the body 1 in a other suitable fruit, and it consists in the plane which is proximate to the highest combinations, constructions and arrangeaperture 3 and intersects the body 1 be- 5 ments herein described and claimed. tween the apertured portion of the body 1 60 An object of the invention is the provision and the .larger end of the body. The walls of a device which can be used quickly and of the body 1 are imperforate from the easily to effect tho removal of practically combined stop and sealing flange 4 to the all the juice from a fruit in a sanitary manlarger end of the body.

1o ner so that there will be but little, if any, From the foregoing description of the va- 65 likelihood of contamination of the fruit rious parts of the device, the operation ic, I thereof may be readily understood. The

A further object of the invention is the smaller end of the body is forced through provision 'of a fruit juice extractor of the the rind or skin of a fruit, such as that incharacter described which affords facilities dicated at 5 so that the perforated portion 70 for holding the extracted juice so that it of the body will be imbedded in the fruit can be imbibed direct from the extractor along the axis of the latter, the core of the without there being any necessity of transfruit being received within the perforated ferring the juice to a cup or likevessel. portion of the body 1 and the combined A still further object of the invention stop and sealing flange pressing against the 75 is the provision of an extractor of the charfruit at the mouth of the opening in the acter described which can be thoroughly and fruit in which the apertured portion ofthe effectually cleaned and sterilized when rebody 1 is received. The fruit then is quired and which includes no recesses or grasped in the hand and is compressed toother places inaccessible to a cleaning or ward the apertured portion of the body 1. sterilizing fluid. It 1s obvious that the juice of the fruit will Other object-s and advantages of the mbe forced through the apertures 3 into the vention will beapparent from the following body through the core portion 1 and thence description, considered in conjunction with upward 1n the latter into the imperforate the accompanying drawing, in which upper port-ion of the body 1, as indicated at Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the 6 in Figures 1 and 2. The juice may be improved extractor applied to a fruit, sipped from the upper end portion of the Figure 2 is a vertical section through the body 1 in the same manner as from a cup, fruit and through the extractor, and the extreme upper edge being rounded or Figure 3 is a perspective view of the exbeaded for that purpose or it may be imtractO1- bibed from the body 1 by means of straws,

The improved extractor comprises a tubusuch as indicated at 7, or can be poured from lar cup-like body 1 which tapers slightly the body 1 into any suitable vessel or recepfrom one open end to its opposite open end tacle for subsequent consumption or use.

40 and may be formed with an outwardly The flange 4 not only serves as astop for turned bead 2 at its larger end. The tubulimiting the projection of the smaller end of lar body 1 may be made of any suitable inathe body 1 into the fruit but also presses terial, such as porcelain, glass, or a light against the mud or SlflIh of the fruit at the gauge metal and preferably is made of mamouth of the openlng 1n which the aperterial which will not be impaired by the ac- 'tured portion of the body 1 is received and tion of the juices of the fruit with which it prevents escape of juice from the fruit at is to be used. The body 1 is formed with the point of entry-of the body 1 into the lateral perforations or apertures 3 from its fruit. The body 1 preferably has the exsmaller end for part of its length. These tremity of the apertured portion thereof 50 apertures 3 may have any desirable conformed with a cutting edge, as indicated at figuration, area, and relative arrangement. 1, and loosens the core. I Tliey are shown as being horizontally elon- Obviously, the invention is susceptible of gated openings arranged in circumferential embodiment in forms other than that which rows which extend longitudinally of the is illustrated inthe accompanying drawing,

' body 1 for part of the length of the latter. and I therefore consider as my own all such end having a sharp edge whereby to read 'ily enter the fruit and core out a portion thereof, a portion of the body member from its lower'end and upward provided with rows of slots, whereby to permit the juice to be expressed into the cored portion and into the upper portion of the cup, by external pressure applied to the fruit.

ALBERT W. THOMPSON. 

